"Believe" = BIOMETRIC ENROLLMENT, LOCALLY STORED INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC VERIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT"
This truly is a devilish acronym for a national ID card
Democrats: "BELIEVE" in biometric Social Security cards (THIRDFACTOR.COM)
There are varying reports on whether immigration reform will be discussed in Congress in 2010, but if it is addressed one aspect that will likely be included is a biometric Social Security card for employment verification. Dubbed Biometric Enrollment, Locally-stored Information, and Electronic Verification of Employment, or BELIEVE, the card would be required to verify permanent residence when starting a new job.
The Democrat-sponsored proposal would have the Social Security Administration issuing biometric cards 18 months after the law is passed. “These cards will be fraud-resistant, tamper-resistant, wear resistant, and machine-readable social security cards containing a photograph and an electronically coded micro-processing chip which possesses a unique biometric identifier for the authorized card-bearer,” states the conceptual proposal for immigration reform.
The biometric information would be stored in template form on the card and not in any databases. When verifying employment eligibility the card would be inserted into a reader, the cardholder would present the biometric for matching against the template stored on the card and it would either match or not match. The proposal doesn’t specify which biometric technology would be used with the system.
The card would replace Homeland Security’s E-Verify system, which is used to verify employment eligibility now, says Walter Hamilton, chairman of the board at the International Biometric Industry Association. With the E-Verify system a prospective employee presents a Social Security number and the system tells the employer if it’s valid. It doesn’t actually check to make sure the number is associated with that individual. A biometric Social Security card would change that, linking the individual to the card.
The federal government would be required to use the system as the sole employment verification system within three years after enactment and federal contractors will be required to use the system within four years after the date of enactment. Within five years, the card would serve as the sole acceptable document to be produced by an employee to an employer for employment verification purposes.....more
